server: MTU probe (MTU_PROBE/MTU_ACK) — path-MTU / black-hole measurement
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Server ACKs each DF-flagged probe with a tiny MTU_ACK carrying the size it
received; the client binary-searches the path MTU. Non-amplifying by
construction. Tested.

Also records: v0.3.2 (http-echo + tls-reference) verified live on fmr, and
the finding that upstream trains are already observable via the
observations API (dedicated TRAIN_REPORT deferred — needs an
anti-amplification grant + columnar encoding).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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mrambossek
2026-07-31 20:37:20 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 38fb73c34e
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@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ const (
TypeEchoResp = 0x02
TypeTimesyncReq = 0x07
TypeTimesyncRsp = 0x08
TypeMtuProbe = 0x09
TypeMtuAck = 0x0A
TypeDelayedEcho = 0x0B
)
@@ -132,11 +134,24 @@ func (s *Server) handle(conn *net.UDPConn, raddr netip.AddrPort, pkt []byte, tRx
s.echoResp(conn, raddr, sess, pkt, seq, tRxNs)
case TypeTimesyncReq:
s.timesyncResp(conn, raddr, sess, pkt, seq, tRxNs)
case TypeMtuProbe:
s.mtuAck(conn, raddr, sess, seq, len(pkt))
default:
slog.Debug("unhandled data-plane type", "type", typ)
}
}
// mtuAck replies to an MTU_PROBE with a small MTU_ACK carrying the total
// datagram size the server actually received (spec §3.2). The client sends
// DF-flagged probes of increasing size and binary-searches the path MTU / a
// black hole from which sizes stop being acknowledged. The ACK is tiny, so it
// can never amplify regardless of probe size.
func (s *Server) mtuAck(conn *net.UDPConn, raddr netip.AddrPort, sess *session.Session, seq uint32, received int) {
var payload [4]byte
binary.BigEndian.PutUint32(payload[:], uint32(received))
s.send(conn, raddr, sess, TypeMtuAck, seq, payload[:])
}
// Observation block (spec §3.3), fixed 40 bytes appended to the RESP header:
// 0 8 t_rx_ns (server clock, process epoch)
// 8 8 t_tx_ns